Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace.

First launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure business by a year.

It serves as a crowdsourcing marketplace where users can post gigs that […]

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